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From Portraits and Dreams (Saudi Arabia) 1989: the subject manipulated the negative to hide her identity.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Secondhand Tires Displayed for Sale; March 1940. This image feels constructed to me because we don’t usually see things for sale displayed on the faces of buildings. The nod to Walker Evans’s work also makes this photo feel constructed.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Race Car (sometime in the 20th Century?); This photo is somewhat troubling because we know that the wheel of a racer probably isn’t quite oblong like that.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Untitled from Twilight (2001-2002). The scene looks real because of the nature of how we approach viewing photographs; however, the scene is entirely staged and constructed from scratch.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Falling Soldier (1936); This photo is accepted to be the first photograph of death on a battle field; however, it is highly likely that this photo was completely staged and that the man in the picture wasn’t even dying.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Paris (not sure of date); Atget’s photographs of the streets of Paris are deceiving because they are taken in broad daylight in the middle of downtown Paris, yet many of his photographs do not include people.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mother and Baby of Family on the Road (1939). Dorothea Lange’s photos were commissioned to document the effects of the Dust Bowl and Great depression on the lives of Americans. This photograph is questionable in its depiction of the truth, because there is a sister image of the same mother and child in which both are smiling, the the child’s face is actually relatively clean.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A Naked Man Being a Woman (1965). This image blends our expectations and perceptions of masculine and feminine bodies, seemingly with the intention to initially deceive or make the viewer take a second look.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mt. Williamson (negative 1944, print 1981). This image feels highly constructed and manipulated in the sense of Adams’ aesthetic such that every inch of the photograph must be completely in focus.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Media Market (2016). This photo is an amalgamation of photos to create a single image in which every object is completely in focus.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":385,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-too-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-2402-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-2402-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-2402-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-2402-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/385"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-2402-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-2402-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-2402-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-2402-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-2402-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}